On February 8th my body composition was 34.6% fat. Today, almost 3 months later, I was retested. The results were very encouraging. My weight was EXACTLY the same, but my body fat has dropped to 28.1%.\u00a0 My BMI dropped from 27.2 to 26.8.<\/p>\n
That translates into 10 pounds more muscle and 10 pounds less fat!<\/p>\n
Now, these tests are not perfect — but even if you allow for human error in acquiring the measurements — this was a significant change for the better! And, my weight didn’t change at all !! Kinda wonder if I should just throw my bathroom scale away. Might not be such a bad idea.<\/p>\n
I’ve always felt that weight is a poor indicator of fitness (clearly within reason) and today’s test results seem to support that belief. Before the calipers even touched me I knew that my body had gotten leaner. I can feel it when I ride and in the way my clothing fits.<\/p>\n
There is still lots of room for improvement. I’ve got 6-7 weeks of training left and I hope to continue this trend. Although it would be nice to drop a few pounds so I don’t have to carry them all the way from coast to coast — I won’t mind so much if it is muscle weight instead of dead weight!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On February 8th my body composition was 34.6% fat. Today, almost 3 months later, I was retested. The results were very encouraging. My weight was EXACTLY the same, but my body fat has dropped to 28.1%.\u00a0 My BMI dropped from 27.2 to 26.8. That translates into 10 pounds more muscle and 10 pounds less fat! […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483,"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions\/483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}